Worst Engineering Disasters
Friday, Aug 14, 2020, 6:22 pm
By:
Tony Williams
#8 Banqiao Dam
When this dam in China failed in 1975 it led to an estimated 171,000 people being killed and more than 11 million people saw their homes being wiped out. A total of 62 dams in the area failed after a typhoon and it is hard to imagine the actual devastation that took place or how scared you would have been should you have lived in the area.
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